What are you doing right now?

[Minty]

(29-06-2013 05:17 PM)Caspin Wrote:  Hmmm, hope there's no Orange trouble up there.

I've no problem with people writing articles about their interests or wanting to contribute to magazines even if there's nothing in it for them financially - writing is as good a hobby as anything else, after all. But sometimes it can provide a platform to crackpots and loons, like your freemason-druid man.

(I'm not sure I have anything positive to say about 'holistic' medicine, nor about someone failing to establish the terms of their supposed employment prior to producing the work, so perhaps I should be silent on that one, lest I diss Minty's friend!)

Right now I am realising that the entire day has got away from me. I've done nothing useful, played no games, achieved none of my to-do list items. Rubbish Caspin! I have, however, managed to make a wildly extravagant online purchase. Well done me! Jeez.



I suppose I will go and get my chopping board and cut up things to make dinner.

Writing about something you enjoy is one thing, but to let someone else make money out of it? Sod that! There's enough leechy bar stewards in the world that want you to do overtime for nothing (when you're in work - sob!) without doing voluntary work for a business. If it was going to help a charity make some cash, hey, that would be cool, but not so Mr Sweaty Minor Press Baron can pay for his trip to Barbabos.

That's one of the reasons I'm so against this whole "interns" lark. Doing an Internship with a charity, fine, great, everyone benefits but why is it doing one isn't treated seriously on someone's CV anymore by other employers unless they are doing it for someone that could afford to pay a wage, but won't? One of our neighbours kids planned to do one with the Community Service Volunteers, but was warned by her careers advisors that employers wouldn't "count" it as proper experience. WTF?

You want to slag off holistic medicine, go knock yourself out! Never trusted that junk, & glad to see the Coalition has finally withdrawn its NHS funding. Ever read Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column in the Guardian & online? Brilliant writer, although he did make an bum of himself when he said he was selling his Liverpool & Victoria shares in disgust over some scheme they were doing - L&V being a mutual!

We have him to thank for discrediting the Poo woman "Dr" Gillian McKeith (she tried to sue him, it became a show trial, & she was ripped to pieces in court. Reputation in tatters, but Holland & Barrett still think she's wonderful)